Age Quotes

When one has nothing left to lose one becomes courageous. We are timid only when we have something left to cling to.

Don Juan Matus, The Second Ring Of Power by Carlos Castaneda

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Doug Larson

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Aristotle

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.

Erich Fromm

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Kim Hubbard

Did you exchange a walk - On part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?

Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here".

The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me.

Loren

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - - As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Phyllis

We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Benjamin Disraeli

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.

Wilson Mizne

Man... is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill - Educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

Plato

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

William Congreve

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)

Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself.

Franz Xavier Kroetz

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

Dr. Karl Bowman

Thought Why does man kill He kills for food. And not only food frequently there must be a beverage.

Woody Allen

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.

Joe Gores

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity so have some little frocks but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Bernard M. Baruch

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Oscar Wilde

Our government sprang from and was made for the people - - Not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.

Andrew Johnson

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Mark Twain

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Horace Smith

Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you.

Virgil

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.

Johnson

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Ambrose Bierce

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

Cicero

One of the many ways of managing peers is to knock them down so heavily, whenever we find them on their wrong foot, that they loose the courage of raising their voice when we are wrong.

B. J. Gupta

Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage.

Agesilaus the Second

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

Lawana Blackwell

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... it takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

What is important - what lasts - In another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.

Peter Brodie